<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><span id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_139_132741291339761"></span></span><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397265"><span id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397376">Hi Christopher,</span></div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397267"><span></span> </div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397269"><span>From my <span id="yiv2115778475misspell-0"><span id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_1_132741291339719016">knowledge</span></span> it because of in linux-2.6.37/Makefile</span></div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397271"><span></span> </div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397273"><span>In my case content of Lantiq_UGW_5.x/linux/Makefile<br></span></div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397275"><span>#head Lantiq_UGW_5.x/linux/Makefile<br><b>VERSION = 2<br>PATCHLEVEL =
6<br>SUBLEVEL = 32<br>EXTRAVERSION = <font style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">.32<br></font>NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity</b></span></div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397279"><span><b># *DOCUMENTATION*<br></b></span></div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397281">This EXTRAVERSION get added to Kernel build path</div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397285"> </div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397287"># Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)<br>KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat include/config/kernel.release 2> /dev/null)<br>KERNELVERSION = $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)<br></div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397291">On My system on provide the following command.</div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397297"> </div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397299">#uname -r<br>#2.6.32.32</div><div
id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397301">#</div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397303"> </div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397305">If you check the EXTRAVERSION you will find the reason of '+'</div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397307"> </div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397309">Or Some were in the linux-2.6.37/Makefile you might be appending some extra FLAGS or environment variable to KERNELVERSION.</div><div> </div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_139_132741291339792">Read the linux-2.6.37/Makefile for details under the following line.</div><div> </div><div><b># Build the kernel release string<br></b></div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_139_132741291339768">Please try to echo this "KERNELVERSION" during compilation of kernel.</div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_139_132741291339782"> </div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397313">-Anand
Moon</div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397313"></div><div id="yiv2115778475yui_3_2_0_138_1327412913397313"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Christopher Harvey <chris@basementcode.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:46 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: what is the "+" sigh in the modules folder name?<br> </font></div><div style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
On 23.01.2012 15:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote:<br>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Graeme Russ wrote:<br>><br>>> It would be worth testing if a checkout of a tag (say 3.2.0) plus a<br>>> local commit causes '+' and 'dirty'<br>><br>> i think "dirty" only shows up if you have local, uncommitted<br>> changes. but i should probably verify that.<br>><br>I had a local commits when I compiled the kernel. I should have <br>mentioned that in my original email.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kernelnewbies mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" ymailto="mailto:Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org">Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org</a><br>http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>